Thursday, January 20, 2022

Sound familiar?

Dismissive incomprehension
is the act of displaying one’s incomprehension
(or pretending to be ignorant)
of the meaning of some other agent’s speech,
in order to dismiss that speech
and the agent who made that speech.

Matthew J. Cull
Dismissive Incomprehension: A Use of Purported Ignorance to Undermine Others
Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy

 

To read the full article:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02691728.2019.1625982

 

 

 

 


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